Canon EF-S 24mm f/2.8 STM Lens Pancake Lens

canon pancake lenses are small but highly valued tools.it's small in size and also less expensive and worth for the price ,

Specifications

Pancake lenses are smaller in size and light weigted but pictures are clean and sharp, good for quick snaps ,

recomended for street photography.

Canon EF-S 24mm f/2.8 STM Pancake Specifications

focal length conversion 38.4 mm
1 piece using high-precision glass molded aspherical lens
full-time manual focus
shortest shooting distance is 0.16 M
maximum magnification is 0.27X
22.8 mm thickness Weight 125g

Build Quality

Although its small but its build quality is reasonably high , with having a metal mount.

but rest of the body seems to be plasticy

Picture Quality

It's Appature is not high as expected but pictures are sharp and detailed, and its a wide angle lens good for panaromas and landscape shots and also for street photography.

can find some of the pictures from flicker pool under following link

Canon 40mm Pancake lens Flicker Pool

A video Review from Christopher Frost Photography

Hands on Review

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